Editing The Moody Blues (section)

===Threshold Records===
The Moodies were one of the first rock bands to start their own label, following the Beach Boys' [[Brother Records]] and the Beatles' [[Apple Records]]. In 1969 they created [[Threshold Records]], prompted in part by disputes with Decca over album design costs (their gatefold record jackets and expensive cover art were not popular with company executives). The idea was for Threshold to produce new albums and deliver them to Decca in the UK and London in the US who would act as distributor.

The group attempted to build Threshold into a major label by developing new talent&nbsp;– most notably the UK [[hard rock]] band [[Trapeze (band)|Trapeze]] (featuring future [[Deep Purple]] member [[Glenn Hughes (musician)|Glenn Hughes]], future [[Whitesnake]] member [[Mel Galley]] and future [[Judas Priest]] member [[Dave Holland (drummer)|Dave Holland]]) and the US classical-acoustic sextet [[Providence (band)|Providence]]&nbsp;– but these efforts were unsuccessful and the Moodies eventually stopped recruiting new acts to the label, and by the late 1970s would return themselves to more traditional recording contracts.

However, they helped lay the groundwork, with other major rock bands forming their own record labels during the 1970s, including the Rolling Stones ([[Rolling Stones Records]]), Deep Purple ([[Purple Records]]) and [[Led Zeppelin]] ([[Swan Song Records]]). All of the Moodies' records from 1969 to 2001 bore the Threshold logo on at least one of their format versions.